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Bobbie Burgers

Bobbie Burgers is interested in the process of decay, transformation, and metamorphosis. With a distinct style that merges abstraction with representation in increasing degrees, her work brings together instinctive compositions while revealing her precise powers of observation. Remarkable for their compositional rhythms, bold coloration, and sweeping gestural brushstrokes, Burgers’ paintings bring alive the fundamental quest to express something personal, subjective and emotive, in a poetic, abstract way.

Biography

Bobbie Burgers’ large-scale paintings and drawings expand and explode the tradition of floral still-life with vivid, gestural blooms. In the two decades of her practice, her trajectory has moved from images approaching realism to, more recently, abstracted blossoms that double as metaphors for the act of painting, which Burgers compares to the brief, fragile lifespan of a flower: a moment to be grasped “with all its frailty and complexity.”

Largely self-taught, Burgers has drawn inspiration from early Dutch still-lifes and the history of Chinese painting, which she investigated in-depth during her travels for a recent exhibition of her work in Beijing. Her paintings have been compared to and exhibited alongside those of Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, and Jack Shadbolt—artists who, like Burgers, are interested in the relationship between art and nature at the core. Of Burgers’ take on this relationship, Critic Dorota Kozinska has written that her “subject never feels excised from nature, but rather breathed in and exhaled as art.”

Burgers lives and works in her hometown of Vancouver, where she received the Vancouver FANS award in 2013 and teaches at the Gordon Smith Foundation. She has exhibited her work at galleries, museums, and art fairs internationally.

Selected Corporate Collections

Weber Shandwick • Thorn Mark Investments • Ministry Of Foreign Affairs, Canada • Lawson Lundel Lawson • Sutton Place Hotel • Pen-Cor Mortage and Investments • Royal Bank of Canada • Scotia Mcleod • Nordstrom’s, New York City • Liquidity Wines


Selected Solo Exhibitions

2021   Folding Outwards, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA.

2020  The Tender and the Unnerving, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

             Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto

             Equinox Gallery, Vancouver

             Papier Contenporary Art Fair, Montreal

2019 SCOPE Miami, Caldwell Snyder Gallery

             Maximalist, Minimalst, Caldwell Snyder Gallery. St. Helena

             Fragile State, Equinox Gallery. Vancouver

             Harmony Arts Festival, Ferry Building Gallery, Vanouver

             Art Toronto

2018 Perception of Sound, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco

             Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

             Art Beijing

             Art Toronto

2017 An Outline Broken, Cohim Gallery, Beijing, China

             Art Toronto, Toronto, CA

             Art Market San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

             Impure Crystals, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2016 Bitter Sweet, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA.

             Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON.

             Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC.

             Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC.

2015 Innocent Disobedience, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

             Seeds of Rebellion, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON.

             A Beautiful Rebellion, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC.

             The Quiet Revolution, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC.

2014 Suspended Between Sweetness & Sorrow, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA.

             Lovely Fugitive, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON.

             The Lure of Magical Thinking, Bau-Xi, Vancouver, BC.

             Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC.

             Stories That We Tell, Couture Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden.

2013 Days of Dreams & Visions, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

             Respire, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON.

             Alchemy, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC.

             Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC.

             An Involuntary & Unconscious Memoir, Galerie St. Laurent & Hill, Ottawa, ON.

             Eternalism, Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA.

2012 Wanton, Wild, Reckless, Abandonment, Campton Gallery, New York, NY.

             Arriving at a Landscape, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON.

             The Here & Now, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC.

             Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC.

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Selected Artworks

No Love No Glory III  | SOLD

No Love No Glory III | SOLD

Acrylic on Canvas

80 x 60 inches

23328

Crossfire  | SOLD

Crossfire | SOLD

Acrylic on Canvas

80 x 60 inches

23327

No Love No Glory II  | SOLD

No Love No Glory II | SOLD

Acrylic on Canvas

66 x 66 inches

23326

No Love No Glory I  | SOLD

No Love No Glory I | SOLD

Acrylic on Canvas

66 x 66 inches

23325

Selected Corporate Collections

Weber Shandwick • Thorn Mark Investments • Ministry Of Foreign Affairs, Canada • Lawson Lundel Lawson • Sutton Place Hotel • Pen-Cor Mortage and Investments • Royal Bank of Canada • Scotia Mcleod • Nordstrom’s, New York City • Liquidity Wines


Selected Solo Exhibitions

2021   Folding Outwards, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA.

2020  The Tender and the Unnerving, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

             Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto

             Equinox Gallery, Vancouver

             Papier Contenporary Art Fair, Montreal

2019 SCOPE Miami, Caldwell Snyder Gallery

             Maximalist, Minimalst, Caldwell Snyder Gallery. St. Helena

             Fragile State, Equinox Gallery. Vancouver

             Harmony Arts Festival, Ferry Building Gallery, Vanouver

             Art Toronto

2018 Perception of Sound, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco

             Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

             Art Beijing

             Art Toronto

2017 An Outline Broken, Cohim Gallery, Beijing, China

             Art Toronto, Toronto, CA

             Art Market San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

             Impure Crystals, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2016 Bitter Sweet, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA.

             Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON.

             Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC.

             Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC.

2015 Innocent Disobedience, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

             Seeds of Rebellion, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON.

             A Beautiful Rebellion, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC.

             The Quiet Revolution, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC.

2014 Suspended Between Sweetness & Sorrow, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA.

             Lovely Fugitive, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON.

             The Lure of Magical Thinking, Bau-Xi, Vancouver, BC.

             Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC.

             Stories That We Tell, Couture Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden.

2013 Days of Dreams & Visions, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

             Respire, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON.

             Alchemy, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC.

             Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC.

             An Involuntary & Unconscious Memoir, Galerie St. Laurent & Hill, Ottawa, ON.

             Eternalism, Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA.

2012 Wanton, Wild, Reckless, Abandonment, Campton Gallery, New York, NY.

             Arriving at a Landscape, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON.

             The Here & Now, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC.

             Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC.

Bobbie Burgers’ large-scale paintings and drawings expand and explode the tradition of floral still-life with vivid, gestural blooms. In the two decades of her practice, her trajectory has moved from images approaching realism to, more recently, abstracted blossoms that double as metaphors for the act of painting, which Burgers compares to the brief, fragile lifespan of a flower: a moment to be grasped “with all its frailty and complexity.”

Largely self-taught, Burgers has drawn inspiration from early Dutch still-lifes and the history of Chinese painting, which she investigated in-depth during her travels for a recent exhibition of her work in Beijing. Her paintings have been compared to and exhibited alongside those of Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, and Jack Shadbolt—artists who, like Burgers, are interested in the relationship between art and nature at the core. Of Burgers’ take on this relationship, Critic Dorota Kozinska has written that her “subject never feels excised from nature, but rather breathed in and exhaled as art.”

Burgers lives and works in her hometown of Vancouver, where she received the Vancouver FANS award in 2013 and teaches at the Gordon Smith Foundation. She has exhibited her work at galleries, museums, and art fairs internationally.

Bobbie Burgers
Biography

Press

A Microcosm of Maximalism: The Art of Bobbie Burgers

Ampersand LA

December 13, 2020

Bobbie Burgers plays chess with the paint in her latest work

North Shore News

August 1, 2019

Bobbie Burgers: Blurred Edges

Montecristo Magazine

September 9, 2018

Modern Boho: Colour Therapy

House & Home

May 2015

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Abstract Floral Painter: Bobbie Burgers

Homes & Living: The Architecture Issue

June / July 2015

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Art at Nordstrom & Simons Retail Stores

The Vancouver Sun

April 5, 2015

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Bobbie Burgers: Into Abstraction

Westender

December 11, 2014

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Artist Bobbie Burgers, Magical Thinking

Nuvo Magazine

2014

Meet One of Canadas Chicest Artists: Bobbie Burgers

Elle Canada

June 6, 2014

Pierre Coupey and Bobbie Burgers to be Honoured at the FANS Tribute to the Arts

FANS (Fund for the Arts on the North Shore)

November 8, 2013

Burgers' "Eternalism" Flower Power with Philosophical Twist

Seattle Times

January 11, 2013

Bobbie Burgers's Living Room

The Globe and Mail

March 9, 2013

Wanton, Wild, Reckless Abandonment

American Art Collector

June 2012

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Bobbie Burgers is interested in the process of decay, transformation, and metamorphosis. With a distinct style that merges abstraction with representation in increasing degrees, her work brings together instinctive compositions while revealing her precise powers of observation. Remarkable for their compositional rhythms, bold coloration, and sweeping gestural brushstrokes, Burgers’ paintings bring alive the fundamental quest to express something personal, subjective and emotive, in a poetic, abstract way.

Bobbie Burgers


"My story is fragmented, it is up to the viewer to piece it together."

This collection is about nature’s seasonal unfolding. Emotions undergo a similar cycle of highs and lows, whole cycles can start and finish, causing great upheavals.

Bobbie Burgers is interested in the process of decay, transformation, and metamorphosis. With a distinct style that merges abstraction with representation in increasing degrees, her work brings together instinctive compositions while revealing her precise powers of observation. Remarkable for their compositional rhythms, bold coloration, and sweeping gestural brushstrokes, Burgers’ paintings bring alive the fundamental quest to express something personal, subjective and emotive, in a poetic, abstract way.

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